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Comment by jordigh

I'm pretty sure the biggest reason it hasn't caught on is the syntax.

http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/lisp.png

It's the most frequent complaint uttered against Lisp for a reason. All of the other things mentioned in the top responses are addressed by modern Lisp variants. If Rust or Swift were implemented with sexps and everything else about them were equal, they would have a lot of difficulty winning hearts and minds.

parent jordigh 10 years ago

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